Exhibitions & EventsLecture/Gallery Talk

SHADOWS OF OURSELVES: Photography and the American Civil War

Saturday, March 1, 2014

4:30 PM

SHADOWS OF OURSELVES:

Photography and the American Civil War

Jeff Rosenheim

Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saturday, March 1, 4:30 p.m.

Discover the rich legacy of photographs taken during the Civil War: intimate pictures of armed soldiers, from both the North and the South, preparing to meet their destiny; haunting views of battlefields strewn with human remains; and precious records of emancipated slaves posing for their first portraits.